logos, ho, verbal noun of legô (B), with senses corresponding to legô (B) II and III (on the various senses of the word v. Theo Sm.pp.72,73 H., An.Ox.4.327): common in all periods in Prose and Verse, exc. Epic, in which it is found in signf. derived from legô (B) 111, cf.infr. VI. 1 a:

I. computation, reckoning (cf. legô (B) II).

1. account of money handled, "sanides eis has ton l. anagraphomen" IG12.374.191; "edidosan ton l." ib.232.2; "l. dôseis tôn metecheirisas chrêmatôn" Hdt.3.142, cf. 143; "oute chrêmata diacheirisas tês poleôs didômi l. autôn oute archên arxas oudemian euthunas hupechô nun autês" Lys.24.26; "l. apenenkein" Arist.Ath.54.1; "en tais euthunais tou toioutou l. hupechetô" Pl.Lg.774b; "ton tôn chrêmatôn l. para toutôn lambanein" D.8.47; "adikêmata eis arguriou l. anêkonta" Din.1.60; "sunarai logon meta tinos" settle accounts with, Ev.Matt.18.23, etc.; "deuteroi l." a second audit, Cod.Just.1.4.26.1; "ho trapezitikos l." banking account, Theo Sm.p.73 H.: metaph., "ouk an priaimên oudenos l. broton" S.Aj.477 .

b. public accounts, i. e. branch of treasury, "idios l.", in Egypt, OGI188.2, 189.3, 669.38; also as title of treasurer, ib.408.4, Str.17.1.12; "ho epi tôn l." IPE2.29 A (Panticapaeum); "dêmosios l.", = Lat. fiscus, OGI669.21 (Egypt, i A.D.), etc. (but later, = aerarium, Cod.Just.1.5.15); also "Kaisaros l." OGI669.30; "kuriakos l." ib.18.

2. generally, account, reckoning, "mê phunai ton hapanta nikai l." excels the whole account, i.e. is best of all, S.OC 1225 (lyr.); "dontas l. tôn epoiêsan" accounting for, i.e. paying the penalty for their doings, Hdt.8.100; "l. aitein" Pl.Plt.285e; "l. dounai kai dexasthai" Id.Prt.336c, al.; "lambanein l. kai elenchein" Id.Men.75d; "paraschein tôn eirêmenôn l." Id.R.344d; "l. apaitein" D.30.15, cf. Arist. EN1104a3; "l. hupechein, dounai", D.19.95; "l. engrapsai" Id.24.199, al.; "l. apopherein têi polei" Aeschin.3.22, cf. Eu. Luc.16.2, Ep.Hebr.13.17; "to paradoxon tôn sumbebêkotôn hupo logon agein" Plb.15.34.2; "l. hê epistêmê, polla de ho l." the account is manifold, Plot.6.9.4; "echôn logon tou dia ti" an account of the cause, Arist.APo.74b27; "es l. tinos" on account of, "es chrêmatôn l." Th.3.46, cf. Plb.5.89.6, LXX 2 Ma1.14, JRS 18.152 (Jerash); "logôi" c. gen., by way of, Cod.Just.3.2.5. al.; "kata logon tou megethous" if we take into account his size, Arist.HA517b27; "pros hon hêmin ho l." Ep.Hebr.4.13, cf. D.Chr.31.123.

3. measure, tale (cf. infr. 11.1), "thalassa . . metreetai es ton auton l. hokoios prosthen" Heraclit.31; "psuchês esti l. heauton auxôn" Id.115; "es toutou (sc. gêraos) l. ou polloi tines apikneontai" to the point of old age, Hdt.3.99, cf.7.9.b; "ho xumpas l." the full tale, Th.7.56, cf. Ep.Phil.4.15; "koinôi l. nomisanta" common measure, Pl.Lg.746e; sum, total of expenditure, IG42(1).103.151 (Epid., iv B.C.); "ho tês ousias l.", = Lat. patrimonii modus, Cod.Just.1.5.12.20.

4. esteem, consideration, value put on a person or thing (cf. infr. VI. 2 d), "hou pleiôn l. ê tôn allôn" who is of more worth than all the rest, Heraclit.39; "brotôn l. ouk eschen ouden' " A.Pr.233; "ou smikrou l." S.OC1163 : freq. in Hdt., "Mardoniou l. oudeis ginetai" 8.102; "tôn ên elachistos apollumenôn l." 4.135, cf. E.Fr.94; "peri emou oudeis l." Ar.Ra.87; "logou oudenos ginesthai pros tinos" to be of no account, repute with.., Hdt.1.120, cf.4.138; "logou poiêsasthai tina" make one of account, Id.1.33; "elachistou, pleistou l. einai", to be highly, lowly esteemed, Id.1.143, 3.146; but also "logon tinos poieisthai", like Lat. rationem habere alicujus, make account of, set a value on, Democr.187, etc.: usu. in neg. statements, "oudena l. poiêsasthai tinos" Hdt.1.4, cf. 13, Plb.21.14.9, etc.; "l. echein" Hdt.1.62,115; "l. ischein peri tinos" Pl.Ti.87c; "l. echein peri tous poiêtas" Lycurg.107; "l. echein tinos" D.18.199, Arist.EN1102b32, Plu.Phil.18 (but also, have the reputation of . ., v. infr. VI. 2 e); "en oudeni l. poiêsasthai ti" Hdt.3.50; "en oudeni l. apôlonto" without regard, Id.9.70; "en smikrôi l. einai" Pl.R.550a; "humeis out' en l. out' en arithmôi" Orac. ap. Sch.Theoc.14.48; "en andrôn l. [einai]" to be reckoned, count as a man, Hdt.3.120; "en idiôteô logôi kai atimou" reckoned as . ., Eus.Mynd.Fr. 59; "semnos eis aretês l. kai doxês" D.19.142 .

II. relation, correspondence, proportion,

1. generally, "huperteriês l." relation (of gold to lead), Thgn.418 = 1164; "pros logon tou sêmatos" A.Th.519; "kata logon probainontes timôsi" in inverse ratio, Hdt.1.134, cf. 7.36; "kata l. tês apophorês" Id.2.109; "talla kata l." in like fashion, Hp.VM16, Prog.17: c. gen., "kata l. tôn prosthen" ib. 24; "kata l. tôn hêmerôn" Ar. Nu.619; "kata l. tês dunameôs" X. Cyr.8.6.11; "elattô ê kata l." Arist. HA508a2, cf. PA671a18; "ek tautês egeneto ekeinê kata l." Id.Pol. 1257a31; cf. "eulogos": sts. with "ho autos" added, "kata ton auton l. tôi teicheï" in fashion like to . ., Hdt.1.186; "peri tôn nosôn ho autos l." analogously, Pl.Tht.158d, cf. Prm.136b, al.; "eis ton auton l." similarly, Id.R.353d; "kata ton auton l." in the same ratio, IG12.76.8; by parity of reasoning, Pl.Cra.393c, R.610a, al.; "ana logon tinos, tini", Id.Ti.29c, Alc.2., 145d; "touton echei ton l. pros . . hon hê paideia pros tên aretên" is related to . . as . ., Procl.in Euc.p.20 F., al.

2. Math., ratio, proportion ("ho kat' analogon l., l. tês analogias", Theo Sm.p.73 H.), Pythag. 2; "isotês logôn" Arist.EN113a31; "l. esti duo megethôn hê kata pêlikotêta poia schesis" Euc.5 Def.3; "tôn harmoniôn tous l." Arist.Metaph.985b32, cf. 1092b14; "logoi arithmôn" numerical ratios, Aristox.Harm.p.32 M.; "tous phthongous anankaion en arithmou l. legesthai pros allêlous" to be expressed in numerical ratios, Euc.Sect.Can. Proëm.: in Metre, ratio between arsis and thesis, by which the rhythm is defined, Aristox.Harm.p.34 M.; "ean êi ischurotera tou aisthêtêriou hê kinêsis, luetai ho l." Arist.de An. 424a31; "ana logon" analogically, Archyt.2; "ana l. meristheisa [hê psuchê]" proportionally, Pl. Ti.37a; so "kata l." Men.319.6; "pros logon" in proportion, Plb.6.30.3, 9.15.3 (but "pros logon epi stenon sunagetai" narrows uniformly, Sor. 1.9, cf. Diocl.Fr.171); "epi logon" IG5(1).1428 (Messene).

3. Gramm., analogy, rule, "tôi l. tôn metochikôn, tês sunkopês", by the rule of the participles, of syncope, Choerob. in Theod.1.75 Gaisf., 1.377 H.; "eipe moi ton l. tou Aias Aiantos, toutesti ton kanona" An.Ox. 4.328 .

III. explanation,

1. plea, pretext, ground, "ek tinos l."; A.Ch.515; "ex oudenos l." S.Ph.731; "apo pantos l." Id.OC762; "chô l. kalos prosên" Id.Ph.352; "sun aphanei l." Id.OT657 (lyr., v.l. "logôn"); "en aphanei l." Antipho 5.59; "epi toioutôi l." Hdt.6.124; "kata tina l.;" on what ground? Pl.R.366b; "oude pros hena l." to no purpose, Id.Prt. 343d; "epi tini l.;" for what reason? X.HG2.2.19; "ton l. touton" this ground of complaint, Aeschin.3.228; "tini dikaiôi l.;" what just cause is there? Pl.Grg.512c; "tini l.;" on what account? Act.Ap.10.29; "kata logon an êneschomên humôn" reason would that . ., ib.18.14; "l. echein", with personal subject, "eichon an tina l." I (i.e. my conduct) would have admitted of an explanation, Pl.Ap.31b; "ton orthon l." the true explanation, ib.34b.

b. plea, case, in Law or argument (cf. VIII. I), "ton hêttô l. kreittô poiein" to make the weaker case prevail, ib.18b, al., Arist.Rh.1402a24, cf. Ar.Nu.1042 (pl.); personified, ib.886, al.; "amuneis tôi tês hêdonês l." Pl.Phlb.38a; "anoiseis tous l. autôn pros ton theon" LXXEx.18.19; "echein l. pros tina" to have a case, ground of action against . ., Act.Ap.19.38.

2. statement of a theory, argument, "ouk emeu alla tou l. akousantas" prob. in Heraclit.50; "logon êde noêma amphis alêtheiês" discourse and reflection on reality, Parm.8.50; "dêloi houtos ho l. hoti . ." Democr.7; "ouk echei logon" it is not arguable, i.e. reasonable, S.El.466, Pl.Phd.62d, etc.; "echei l." D.44.32; "oudeis auta katabalei l." E.Ba.202; "dikason . . ton l. akousas" Pl.Lg.696b; personified, "phêsi houtos ho l." ib.714d, cf. Sph.238b, Phlb.50a; "hôs ho l." (sc. "legei") Arist.EN1115b12; "hôs ho l. ho orthos legei" ib. 1138b20, cf. 29; "ho l. thelei prosbibazein" Phld.Rh.1.41, cf.1.19 S.; "ou gar an akouseie logou apotrepontos" Arist.EN1179b27; "l. kathairôn" Aristo Stoic.1.88; "logou tunchanein" to be explained, Phld.Mus.p.77 K.; "ho ton l. mou akouôn" my teaching, Ev.Jo.5.24; "ho prophêtikos l.", collect., of VT prophecy, 2 Ep.Pet.1.19: pl., "hokosôn logous êkousa" Heraclit.108; "ouk epitheto tois emois l." Ar.Nu.73; of arguments leading to a conclusion ( [ ho l.] ), Pl. Cri.46b; "ta Anaxagorou biblia gemei toutôn tôn l." Id.Ap.26d; "l. apo tôn archôn, epi tas archas", Arist.EN1095a31; "sullogismos esti l. en hôi tethentôn tinôn ktl." Id.APr.24b18; "l. antitupos te kai aporos", of a self-contradictory theory, Plot.6.8.7.

b. "ho peri theôn l.", title of a discourse by Protagoras, D.L.9.54; "ho Achilleus l.", name of an argument, ib.23; "ho auxomenos l." Plu.2.559b; "kataballontes" (sc. "logoi"), title of work by Protagoras, S.E.M.7.60; "l. sophistikoi" Arist.SE 165a34, al.; "hoi mathêmatikoi l." Id.Rh.1417a19, etc.; "hoi exôterikoi l.", current outside the Lyceum, Id.Ph.217b31, al.; "Dissoi l.", title of a philosophical treatise (= Dialex.); "L. kai Logina", name of play of Epicharmus, quibble, argument, personified, Ath.8.338d.

c. in Logic, proposition, whether as premiss or conclusion, "protasis esti l. kataphatikos ê apophatikos tinos kata tinos" Arist.APr.24a16 .

d. rule, principle, law, as embodying the result of "logismos", Pi.O.2.22, P.1.35, N.4.31; "peithesthai tôi l. hos an moi logizomenôi beltistos phainêtai" Pl.Cri.46b, cf. c; "hêdonas tois orthois l. hepomenas" obeying right principles, Id.Lg.696c; "proaireseôs [archê] orexis kai l. ho heneka tinos" principle directed to an end, Arist.EN1139a32; of the final cause, "archê ho l. en te tois kata technên kai en tois phusei sunestêkosin" Id.PA639b15; "apodidoasi tous l. kai tas aitias hou poiousi hekastou" ib.18; "[technê] hexis meta l. alêthous poiêtikê" Id.EN1140a10; "orthos l." true principle, right rule, ib.1144b27, 1147b3, al.; "kata logon" by rule, consistently, "ho kata l. zôn" Pl.Lg.689d, cf. Ti.89d; "to kata l. zên", opp. "kata pathos", Arist.EN1169a5; "kata l. prochôrein" according to plan, Plb.1.20.3.

3. law, rule of conduct, "hôi malista diênekôs homilousi logôi" Heraclit.72; "polloi logon mê mathontes zôsi kata logon" Democr.53; "dei huparchein ton l. ton katholou tois archousin" universal principle, Arist.Pol.1286a17; "ho nomos . . l. ôn apo tinos phronêseôs kai nou" Id.EN1180a21; "ho nomos empsuchos ôn heautôi l." conscience, Plu. 2.780c; "ton l. procheiron echein" precept, Phld.Piet.30, cf. 102; "ho prostaktikos tôn poiêteôn ê mê l. koinos" M.Ant.4.4 .

4. thesis, hypothesis, provisional ground, "hôs an ei legoi logon" maintain a thesis, Pl. Prt.344b; "hupothemenos hekastote l." provisionally assuming a proposition, Id.Phd.100a; "ton tês homoiotêtos l." hypothesis of equivalence, Arist.Cael.296a20.

5. reason, ground, "pantôn ginomenôn kata ton l. tonde" Heraclit.1; "houtô bathun l. echei" Id.45; "ek logou", opp. "matên", Leucipp. 2; "megiston sêmeion houtos ho l." Meliss.8; "[empeiria] ouk echei l. oudena hôn prospherei" has no grounds for . ., Pl.Grg.465a; "meta logou [p. 1058] te kai epistêmês theias" Id.Sph.265c; "hê meta logou alêthês doxa ([epistêmê])" Id.Tht.201c; "logon zêtousin hôn ouk esti l." proof, Arist. Metaph.1011a12; "hoi hapantôn zêtountes l. anairousi l." Thphr.Metaph. 26 .

6. formula (wider than definition, but freq. equivalent thereto), term expressing reason, "l. tês politeias" Pl.R.497c; "psuchês ousia te kai l." essential definition, Id.Phdr.245e; "ho tou dikaiou l." Id.R.343a; "ton l. tês ousias" ib.534b, cf. Phd.78d; "tas pollas epistêmas heni l. proseipein" Id.Tht.148d; "ho tês oikodomêseôs l. echei ton tês oikias" Arist. PA646b3; "tetheiê an idion onoma kath' hekaston tôn l." Id.Metaph.1006b5, cf. 1035b4; "pas horismos l. tis esti" Id.Top.102a5; "epi tôn schêmatôn l. koinos" generic definition, Id.de An.414b23; "akribestatos l." specific definition, Id.Pol.1276b24; "pêgês l. echon" Ph.2.477; "to ôion oute archês echei l." fulfils the function of . ., Plu.2.637d; "l. tês mixeôs" formula, i. e. ratio (cf. supr. II) of combination, Arist.PA642a22, cf. Metaph.993a17.

7. reason, law exhibited in the world-process, "kata logon" by law, "kosmôi panta kai kata l. echonta" Pl.R.500c;" kat ton <auton au> l." by the same law, Epich.170.18; "psuchês to pan tode dioikousês kata l." Plot.2.3.13; esp. in Stoic Philos., the divine order, "ton tou pantos l. hon enioi heimarmenên kalousin" Zeno Stoic.1.24; "to poioun ton en [têi hulêi] l. ton theon" ibid., cf. 42; "ho tou kosmou l." Chrysipp.Stoic.2.264; "logos, = phusei nomos", Stoic.2.169; "kata ton koinon theois kai anthrôpois l." M.Ant.7.53; "ho orthos l. dia pantôn erchomenos" Chrysipp.Stoic.3.4 : so in Plot., "tên phusin einai logon, hos poiei l. allon gennêma hautou" 3.8.2 .

b. "spermatikos l." generative principle in organisms, "ho theos sp. l. tou kosmou" Zeno Stoic.1.28 : usu. in pl., Stoic. 2.205,314, al.; "ginetai ta en tôi panti ou kata spermatikous, alla kata l. perilêptikous" Plot.3.1.7, cf.4.4.39: so without "spermatikos", "hôsper tines l. tôn merôn" Cleanth.Stoic.1.111; "hoi l. tôn holôn" Ph.1.9 .

c. in Neo-Platonic Philos., of regulative and formative forces, derived from the intelligible and operative in the sensible universe, "ontôn meizonôn l. kai theôrountôn hautous egô gegennêmai" Plot.3.8.4; "hoi en spermati l. plattousi . . ta zôia hoion mikrous tinas kosmous" Id.4.3.10, cf.3.2.16,3.5.7; opp. "horos", Id.6.7.4; "aphaneis l. tês phuseôs" Procl. in R.1.18 K.; "technikoi l." ib.142 K., al.

IV. inward debate of the soul (cf. "l. hon autê pros hautên hê psuchê diexerchetai" Pl.Tht.189e ("dialogos" in Sph.263e); "ho en têi psuchêi ho esô l." (opp. "ho exô l."), Arist.APo.76b25, 27; "ho endiathetos", opp. "ho prophorikos l.", Stoic.2.43, Ph.2.154),

1. thinking, reasoning, "tou l. eontos xunou", opp." idia phronêsis", Heraclit. 2; "krinai de logôi . . elenchon" test by reflection, Parm.1.36; reflection, deliberation (cf. VI.3), "edidou logon heôutôi peri tês opsios" Hdt.1.209, cf. 34, S.OT583, D.45.7; "mê eidenai mête logôi mête ergôi" neither by reasoning nor by experience, Anaxag.7; "ha dê logôi men kai dianoiai lêpta, opsei d' ou" Pl.R.529d, cf. Prm.135e; "ho l. ê hê aisthêsis" Arist.EN 1149a35, al.; "autôi monon tôi l. pisteuein" (opp. "aisthêseis"), of Parmenides and his school, Aristocl. ap. Eus.PE14.17: hence "logôi or tôi l." in idea, in thought, "tôi l. temnein" Pl.R.525e; "tôi l. duo estin achôrista pephukota" two in idea, though indistinguishable in fact, Arist. EN1102a30, cf. GC320b14, al.; "logôi theôrêta" mentally conceived, opp. sensibly perceived, Placit.1.3.5, cf. Demetr.Lac.Herc.1055.20; "tous l. theôrêtous chronous" Epicur.Ep.1p.19U.; "dia logou th. ch". ib.p.10 U.; "logôi katalêptos" Phld.Po.5.20, etc.; "ho l. houtô haireei" analogy proves, Hdt.2.33; "ho l." or "l. haireei" reasoning convinces, Id.3.45,6.124, cf. Pl.Cri.48c (but, our argument shows, Lg.663d): also c. acc. pers., "chratai ho ti min l. haireei" as the whim took him, Hdt.1.132; "ên mê hêmeas l. hairêi" unless we see fit, Id.4.127, cf. Pl.R.607b; later "ho hairôn l." ordaining reason, Zeno Stoic.1.50, M.Ant.2.5, cf. 4.24, Arr.Epict. 2.2.20, etc.: coupled or contrasted with other functions, "kath' hupnon epeidê logou kai phronêseôs ou meteiche" since reason and understanding are in abeyance, Pl.Ti.71d; "meta logou te kai epistêmês", opp. "aitia automatê", of Nature's processes of production, Id.Sph.265c; "to men dê noêsei meta logou perilêpton" embraced by thought with reflection, opp. "met' aisthêseôs alogou", Id.Ti.28a; "to men aei met' alêthous l.", opp. "to de alogon", ib.51e, cf. 70d, al.; "l. echôn hepomenon tôi noein" Id.Phlb. 62a; "epistêmê enousa kai orthos l." scientific knowledge and right process of thought, Id.Phd.73a; "pas l. kai pasa epistêmê tôn katholou" Arist.Metaph.1059b26; "to logon echon" Id.EN1102b15, 1138b9, al.: in sg. and pl., contrasted by Pl. and Arist. as theory, abstract reasoning with outward experience, sts. with depreciatory emphasis on the former, "eis tous l. kataphugonta" Pl.Phd.99e; "ton en logois skopoumenon ta onta", opp. "ton en ergois" (realities), ib.100a; "têi aisthêsei mallon tôn l. pisteuteon" Arist.GA760b31; "gnôrimôtera kata ton l.", opp. "kata tên aisthêsin", Id.Ph.189a4; "ek tôn l. dêlon", opp. "ek tês epagôgês", Id.Mete.378b20; "hê tôn l. pistis", opp. "ek tôn ergôn phaneron", Id.Pol.1326a29; "hê pistis ou monon epi tês aisthêseôs alla kai epi tou l". Id.Ph.262a19; "marturei ta gignomena tois l." Id.Pol.1334a6; "ho men l. tou katholou, hê de aisthêsis tou kata meros" explanation, opp. perception, Id.Ph.189a7; "esontai tois l. hai praxeis akolouthoi"theory, opp. practice, Epicur.Sent.25; in Logic, of discursive reasoning, opp. intuition, Arist.EN1142a26, 1143b1; reasoning in general, ib.1149a26; "pas l. kai pasa apodeixis" all reasoning and demonstration, Id.Metaph.1063b10; "l. kai phronêsin" Phld.Mus.p.105 K.; "ho l. ê logismos" ibid.; "to idein ouketi l., alla meizon logou kai pro logou", of mystical vision, opp. reasoning, Plot.6.9.10.--Phrases, "kata l. ton eikota" by probable reasoning, Pl.Ti.30b; "oukoun ton g' eikota l. an echoi" Id.Lg.647d; "para logon", opp. "kata l.", Arist.Rh.Al.1429a29, cf. EN 1167b19; cf. "paralogos" (but "para l." unexpectedly, E.Ba.940).

2. reason as a faculty, "ho l. anthrôpous kubernai" [Epich.] 256; "[thumoeides] tou l. katêkoon" Pl.Ti.70a; "[thumos] hupo tou l. anaklêtheis" Id.R.440d; "summachon tôi l. ton thumon" ib. b; "peitharchei tôi l. to tou enkratous" Arist. EN 1102b26; "allo ti para ton l. pephukos, ho machetai tôi l." ib.17; "enantiôsis logou pros epithumias" Plot.4.7.13(8); "ou thumos, ouk epithumia, oude l. oude tis noêsis" Id.6.9.11 : freq. in Stoic. Philos. of human Reason, opp. "phantasia", Zeno Stoic.1.39; opp. "phusis", Stoic.2.206; "ou sophia oude l. estin en [tois zôiois]" ibid.; "tois alogois zôiois hôs l. echôn l. mê echousi chrô" M.Ant.6.23; "ho l. koinon pros tous theous" Arr.Epict. 1.3.3; "hoion [eikôn] l. ho en prophorai logou tou en psuchêi, houtô kai autê l. nou" Plot.5.1.3; "to ton l. schein tên oikeian aretên" (sc. "eudaimonian") Procl.in Ti.3.334 D.; also of the reason which pervades the universe, "theios l." [Epich.] 257; "ton theion l. kath' Hêrakleiton di' anapnoês spasantes noeroi ginometha" S.E.M.7.129 (cf. infr. x).

b. creative reason, "adunaton ên logon mê ouk epi panta elthein" Plot.3.2.14; "archê oun l. kai panta l. kai ta ginomena kat' auton" Id.3.2.15; "hoi l. pantes psuchai" Id.3.2.18 .

V. continuous statement, narrative (whether fact or fiction), oration, etc. (cf. "legô" (B) 11.2),

1. fable, Hdt.1.141; "Aisôpou logoi" Pl.Phd.60d, cf. Arist.Rh.1393b8; "ho tou kunos l." X.Mem. 2.7.13 .

2. legend, "hiros l." Hdt.2.62, cf. 47, Pi.P.3.80 (pl.); "sunthentes l." E.Ba.297; "l. theios" Pl.Phd.85d; "hieroi l.", of Orphic rhapsodies, Suid. S.V. Orpheus.

3. tale, story, "allon epeimi l." Xenoph. 7.1, cf. Th.1.97, etc.; "sunthetous l." A.Pr.686; "spoudên logou" urgent tidings, E.Ba.663; "allos l." 'another story', Pl.Ap.34e; "homologoumenos ho l. estin" the story is consistent, Isoc.3.27: pl., histories, "en toisi Assurioisi l." Hdt.1.184, cf. 106, 2.99; so in sg., a historical work, Id.2.123, 6.19,7.152: also in sg., one section of such a work (like later "biblos"), Id.2.38,6.39, cf. VI.3d; so in pl., "en toisi Libukoisi l." Id.2.161, cf. 1.75,5.22,7.93,213; "en tôi prôtôi tôn l." Id.5.36; "ho prôtos l.", of St. Luke's gospel, Act.Ap.1.1: in Pl., opp. "muthos", as history to legend, Ti.26e; "poiein muthous all' ou logous" Phd.61b, cf. Grg.523a (but "muthon legein", opp. "logôi (argument) diexelthein" Prt. 320c, cf. 324d); "peri logôn kai muthôn" Arist.Pol.1336a30; "ho l . . . muthos esti" Ael.NA4.34 .

4. speech, delivered in court, assembly, etc., "chrêsomai têi tou l. taxei tautêi" Aeschin.3.57, cf. Arist.Rh.1358a38; "dikanikoi l." Id.EN1181a4; "tria genê tôn l. tôn rhêtorikôn, sumbouleutikon, dikanikon, epideiktikon" Id.Rh.1358b7; "tôi grapsanti ton l." Thphr. Char.17.8, cf. "logographos" 11; "epitaphios l." funeral oration, Pl.Mx.236b; esp. of the body of a speech, opp. "epilogos", Arist.Rh.1420b3; opp. "prooimion", ib.1415a12; body of a law, opp. proem, Pl.Lg.723b; spoken, opp. written word, "ton tou eidotos l. zônta kai empsuchon hou ho gegrammenos eidôlon ti" Id.Phdr.276a; "ho ek tou bibliou rhêtheis [l.]" speech read from a roll, ib.243c; published speech, D.C.40.54; rarely of the speeches in Tragedy (["rhêseis"]), Arist.Po.1450b6,9.

VI. verbal expression or utterance (cf. legô (B) 111), rarely a single word, v. infr. b, never in Gramm. signf. of vocable (["epos, lexis, onoma, rhêma"]), usu. of a phrase, cf. IX. 3 (the only sense found in Ep.).

a. pl., without Art., talk, "ton eterpe logois" Il.15.393; "haimulioi l." Od.1.56, h.Merc. 317, Hes.Th.890, Op.78,789, Thgn.704, A.R.3.1141; "pseudeis L.", personified, Hes.Th.229; "aphrodisioi l." Semon.7.91; "aganoisi l." Pi.P. 4.101; "opson de l. phthoneroisin" tales, Id.N.8.21; "smikroi l." brief words, S.Aj.1268 (s.v.l.), El.415; "dokêsis agnôs logôn" bred of talk, Id.OT 681 (lyr.): also in sg., "leg' ei soi tôi l. tis hêdonê" speak if thou delightest in talking, Id.El.891.

b. sg., expression, phrase, "prin eipein esthlon ê kakon l." Id.Ant.1245, cf. E.Hipp.514; "murias hôs eipein logôi" Hdt.2.37; "makros l." rigmarole, Simon.189, Arist.Metaph.1091a8; "l. êrema lechtheis diethêke to porrô" a whispered message, Plot.4.9.3; "heni logôi" to sum up, in brief phrase, Pl.Phdr.241e, Phd.65d; concisely, Arist. EN1103b21 (but also, = "haplôs, peri pantôn heni l." Id.GC325a1): pl.,"l. thelktêrioi" magic words, E.Hipp.478; rarely of single words, "l. eusunthetos hoion to "chronotribein"" Arist.Rh.1406a36; "ouk apekrithê autêi l." answered her not a word, Ev.Matt.15.23.

c. coupled or contrasted with words expressed or understood signifying act, fact, truth, etc., mostly in a depreciatory sense, "l. ergou skiê" Democr. 145; "hôsper mikron paida logois m' apatais" Thgn.254; "logôi", opp. "ergôi", Democr.82, etc.; "nêpioisi ou l. alla xumphorê didaskalos" Id.76; "ergôi kou logôi tekmairomai" A.Pr.338, cf. S.El.59, OC782; "logôi men legousi . . ergôi de ouk apodeiknusi" Hdt.4.8; "ou logôn, phasin, hê agorê deitai, chalkôn de" Herod.7.49; "oute l. oute ergôi" Lys.9.14; "logois, opp. psêphôi", Aeschin.2.33; opp. "noôi", Hdt.2.100; "ou logôi mathôn" E.Heracl.5; "ek logôn, kouphou pragmatos" Pl.Lg.935a; "logoisi eis to pithanon peripepemmena" ib.886e, cf. Luc.Anach.19; "hina mê l. oiêsthe einai, all' eidête tên alêtheian" Lycurg.23, cf. D.30.34; opp. "pragma", Arist.Top.146a4; opp. "bia", Id.EN1179b29, cf. 1180a5; opp. "onta", Pl.Phd.100a; opp. gnôsis, 2 Ep.Cor.11.6; logôi in pretence, Hdt.1.205, Pl.R.361b,376d, Ti.27a, al.; "logou heneka" merely as a matter of words, "allôs heneka l. elegeto" Id.Cri.46d; "logou charin", opp. "hôs alêthôs", Arist.Pol.1280b8; but also, let us say, for instance, Id.EN1144a33, Plb.10.46.4, Phld. Sign.29, M.Ant.4.32; "logou heneka" let us suppose, Pl.Tht.191c; "heôs logou, mechri l.", = Lat. verbo tenus, Plb.10.24.7, Epict.Ench.16: sts. without depreciatory force, the antithesis or parallelism being verbal (cf. 'word and deed'), "logôi te kai sthenei" S.OC68; "en te ergôi kai l." Pl.R.382e, cf. D.S.13.101, Ev.Luc.24.19, Act.Ap.7.22, Paus.2.16.2; "hosa men logôi eipon", opp. "ta erga tôn prachthentôn", Th. 1.22.

2. common talk, report, tradition, "hôs l. en thnêtoisin eên" Batr. 8; "l. ek paterôn" Alc.71; "ouk est' etumos l. houtos" Stesich.32; "dixos legetai l." Hdt.3.32; "l. hup' Aiguptiôn legomenos" Id.2.47; "neon [l.]" tidings, S.Ant.1289 (lyr.); "ta men autoi hôrômen, ta de logoisi epunthanometha" by hearsay, Hdt.2.148: also in pl., "en grammasin logoi keimenoi" traditions, Pl.Lg.886b.

b. rumour, "epi panti l. eptoêsthai" Heraclit. 87; "audaeis l." voice of rumour, B.14.44; "peri theôn diêlthen ho l. hoti . ." Th.6.46; "l. pareichen hôs . ." Plb.3.89.3; "exêlthen ho l. houtos eis tinas [p. 1059] hoti . ." Ev.Jo.21.23, cf. Act.Ap.11.22; fiction, Ev.Matt.28.15.

c. mention, notice, description, "ouk huei logou axion ouden" worth mentioning, Hdt.4.28, cf. Plb.1.24.8, etc.; "erga logou mezô" beyond expression, Hdt.2.35; "kreisson logou to eidos tês nosou" beyond description, Th. 2.50; "meizô erga ê hôs tôi l. tis an eipoi" D.6.11 .

d. the talk one occasions, repute, mostly in good sense, good report, praise, honour (cf. supr. 1.4), "polla pherein eiôthe l. . . ptaismata" Thgn.1221; "l. eslon akousai" Pi.I.5(4).13; "pleona . . l. Odusseos ê pathan" Id.N.7.21; "hina l. se echêi pros anthrôpôn agathos" Hdt.7.5, cf. 9.78; "Troian . . hês hapantachou l." whose fame, story fills the world, E.IT517; "ouk an ên l. sethen" Id.Med.541 : less freq. in bad sense, evil report, "l. kakothrous, kakos", S. Aj.138 (anap.), E.Heracl.165: pl., "logous psithurous plassôn" slanders, S.Aj.148 (anap.).

e. "l. esti, echei, katechei", the story goes, c. acc. et inf., "est tis l. tan Aretan naiein" Simon.58.1, cf. S.El.417; "l. men est' archaios hôs . ." Id.Tr.1; l. alone, E.Heracl.35; "hôs l." A.Supp.230, Pl. Phlb.65c, etc.; "l. esti" Hdt.7.129,9.26, al.; "l. aien echei" S.OC1573 (lyr.); "hoson ho l. katechei" tradition prevails, Th.1.10: also with a personal subject in the reverse construction. "Kleisthenês l. echei tên Puthiên anapeisai" has the credit of . ., Hdt.5.66, cf. Pl.Epin.987b, 988b; "l. echonta sophias" Ep.Col.2.23, v.supr.1.4.

3. discussion, debate, deliberation, "pollos ên en toisi l." Hdt.8.59; "sunelechthêsan hoi Mêdoi es tôuto kai edidosan sphisi logon, legontes peri tôn katêkontôn" Id.1.97; "hoi Pelasgoi heôutoisi logous edidosan" Id.6.138; "polemôi mallon ê logois ta enklêmata dialuesthai" Th.1.140; "hoi peri tês eirênês l." Aeschin.2.74; "tois exôthen l. peplêrôke ton l." [Plato] has filled his dialogue with extraneous discussions, Arist.Pol.1264b39; "to mêkos tôn metabainôn ho l. eis tauton aphiktai" our debate, Arist.EN1097a24; "ho parôn l." ib.1104a11; "theôn hôn nun ho l. esti" discussion, Pl.Ap.26b, cf. Tht. 184a, M.Ant.8.32; "tôi l. dielthein, diïenai", Pl.Prt.329c, Grg.506a, etc.; "ton l. diexelthein" conduct the debate, Id.Lg.893a; "xunelthein es logon" confer, Ar.Eq.1300: freq. in pl., "es logous sunelthontes" parley, Hdt. 1.82; "es l. elthein tini" have speech with, ib.86; "es l. apikesthai tini" Id.2.32; "dia logôn ienai" E.Tr.916; "emautêi dia l. aphikomên" Id.Med.872; "es l. agein tina" X.HG4.1.2; "koinônein logôn kai dianoias" Arist.EN 1170b12 .

b. right of discussion or speech, "ê 'pi tôi plêthei l."; S.OC 66; "l. aitêsasthai" ask leave to speak, Th.3.53; "l. didonai" X.HG5.2.20; "ou proutethê sphisin l. kata ton nomon" ib.1.7.5; "logou tuchein" D.18.13, cf. Arist.EN1095b21, Plb.18.52.1; "hoi logou tous doulous aposterountes" Arist.Pol.1260b5; "doulos pephukas, ou metesti soi logou" Trag.Adesp.304; "didontas l. kai dechomenous en tôi merei" Luc.Pisc.8 : hence, time allowed for a speech, "en tôi emôi l." And.1.26, al.; "en tôi heautou l." Pl.Ap.34a; "ouk elattô l. anêlôke" D.18.9 .

c. dialogue, as a form of philosophical debate, "hina mê machômetha en tois l. egô te kai su" Pl. Cra.430d; "pros allêlous tous l. poieisthai" Id.Prt.348a : hence, dialogue as a form of literature, "hoi Sôkratikoi l." Arist.Po.1447b11, Rh. 1417a20; cf. "dialogos".

d. section, division of a dialogue or treatise (cf. v. 3), "ho prôtos l." Pl.Prm.127d; "ho prosthen, ho parelthôn l.", Id.Phlb.18e, 19b; "en tois prôtois l." Arist.PA682a3; "en tois peri kinêseôs l." in the discussion of motion (i. e. Ph.bk.8), Id.GC318a4; "en tôi peri epainou l." Phld.Rh.1.219; branch, department, division of a system of philosophy, "tên phronêsin ek triôn sunestêkenai l., tôn phusikôn kai tôn êthikôn kai tôn logikôn" Chrysipp.Stoic.2.258 .

e. in pl., literature, letters, Pl.Ax.365b, Epin.975d, D.H.Comp.1,21 (but, also in pl., treatises, Plu.2.16c); "hoi epi logois eudokimôtatoi" Hdn.6.1.4; "Logoi", personified, AP9.171 (Pall.).

VII. a particular utterance, saying:

1. divine utterance, oracle, Pi.P.4.59; "l. mantikoi" Pl. Phdr.275b; "ou gar emon erô ton l." Pl.Ap.20e; "ho l. tou theou" Apoc.1.2,9.

2. proverb, maxim, saying, Pi.N.9.6, A.Th.218; "hôd' echei l." ib.225; "tond' ekainisen l. hôs . ." Critias 21, cf. Pl.R.330a, Ev.Jo.4.37; "ho palaios l." Pl.Phdr.240c, cf. Smp.195b, Grg.499c, Lg.757a, 1 Ep.Ti.1.15, Plu.2.1082e, Luc.Alex.9, etc.; "to tou logou dê touto" Herod.2.45, cf. D.Chr.66.24, Luc.JTr.3, Alciphr.3.56, etc.: pl., Arist.EN1147a21.

3. assertion, opp. oath, S.OC651; "psilôi l." bare word, opp. "marturia", D.27.54.

4. express resolution, "koinôi l." by common consent, Hdt.1.141, al.; "epi l. toiôide, ep' hôi te . ." on the following terms, Id.7.158, cf. 9.26; "endexasthai ton l." Id.1.60, cf. 9.5; "l. echontes pleonektên" a greedy proposal, Id.7.158: freq. in pl., terms, conditions, Id.9.33, etc.

5. word of command, behest, A.Pr.17,40 (both pl.), Pers.363; "anthrôpous pithanôterous poiein logôi" X.Oec.13.9; "exebale ta pneumata logôi" Ev.Matt.8.16; "hoi deka l." the ten Commandments, LXX Ex.34.28, Ph.1.496.

VIII. thing spoken of, subject-matter (cf. 111.1 b and 2), "l. touton easomen" Thgn.1055; "propepusmenos panta l." the whole matter, Hdt.1.21, cf. 111; "ton eonta l." the truth of the matter, ib.95,116; "metaschein tou l." to be in the secret, ib.127; "mêdeni allôi ton l. touton eipêis" Id.8.65; "tis ên l."; S.OT684 (= "pragma", 699); "peri tinos l. dielegometha" subject, question, Pl.Prt.314c; "[to prooimion] deigma tou l." case, Arist.Rh.1415a12, cf. 111.1b; "telos de pantos tou l. psêphizontai" the end of the matter was that . ., Aeschin.3.124; "ouk estexe ton l." Plb.8.12.5; "ouk esti soi meris oude klêros en tôi l. toutôi" Act.Ap.8.21; "hikanos autôi ho l." Pl.Grg.512c; "ouch hupoleipei [Gorgian] ho l." matter for talk, Arist.Rh.1418a35; "mêdena l. hupolipein" Isoc.4.146; "pros logon" to the point, opposite, "ouden pros l." Pl.Phlb.42e, cf. Prt.344a; "ean pros l. ti êi" Id.Phlb.33c; also "pros logou" Id.Grg.459c (s. v.l.).

2. plot of a narrative or dramatic poem, = "muthos", Arist.Po.1455b17, al.

b. in Art, subject of a painting, "zôgraphias logoi" Philostr.VA 6.10; "l. tês graphês" Id.Im.1.25 .

3. thing talked of, event, "meta tous l. toutous" LXX 1 Ma.7.33, cf. Act.Ap.15.6.

IX. expression, utterance, speech regarded formally, "to apo [psuchês] rheuma dia tou stomatos ion meta phthongou l.", opp. "dianoia", Pl.Sph.263e; intelligent utterance, opp. "phônê", Arist.Pol.1253a14; "l. esti phônê sêmantikê kata sunthêkên" Id.Int.16b26, cf. Diog.Bab.Stoic.3.213; "hothen (from the heart) ho l. anapempetai" Stoic.2.228, cf. 244; Protagoras was nicknamed "logos", Hsch. ap. Sch.Pl.R.600c, Suid.; "logou peithoi" Democr.181 : in pl., eloquence, Isoc.3.3,9.11; "tên en logois euruthmian" Epicur.Sent.Pal.5p.69 v. d. M.; "l. akribês" precise language, Ar.Nu.130 (pl.), cf. Arist.Rh. 1418b1; "tou mê aidomenou l." Pl.R.398d; "hêdusmenos l.", of rhythmical language set to music, Arist.Po.1449b25; "en panti l." in all manner of utterance, 1 Ep.Cor.1.5; "en logois" in orations, Arist.Po.1459a13; "l. geloioi, aschêmones", ludicrous, improper speech, Id.SE182b15, Pol. 1336b14.

2. of various modes of expression, esp. artistic and literary, "en te ôidais kai muthois kai logois"